Update from KSBY Meteorologist Dave Hovde at 8:42pm
SLO County added to Areal Flood Advisory until 12am for urban flooding, roadway issues, ponding, and minor debris flow potential.
Update from KSBY Meteorologist Dave Hovde at 7:17pm
Additional flood advisories posted for Santa Barbara County due to additional rain falling in the area:
The Central Coast is in clean-up mode after powerful winds with gusts of 70-80mph hit the region along with flooding rainfall.
Generally, SLO County has seen less rain than Santa Barbara County so far.
Right now, SoCal is getting drilled by the atmospheric river part of the storm. This is what hit the Central Coast yesterday.
The Central Coast is in the larger upper-level trough behind the atmospheric river.
New rain should range from light in northern SLO county to .50-1.75” in Southern Santa Barbara County with locally more in the hills and mountains.
One flood watch remains for the mountains of Santa Barbara County and the South Coast. This is due to the rain already received and also the additional potential in the forecast.
There are also remaining surf advisories even though surf heights are diminishing:
There is also a winter weather advisory for the higher elevations of the Santa Barbara County Mountains:
While most of the new rain should be pockets of rain with some heavier downpours, thunderstorms are still possible through Tuesday.
Interestingly, we aren’t even done after Tuesday. Later Wednesday another trough moves through in the evening for more showers, but accumulations with this are expected to be under .25”
After that, we finally look to get into some quieter weather Thursday through the weekend and into next week.
I'll just add some additional rain and reservoir reports here to the bottom of the story, again the rain is not entirely done yet:
